The conflict that so obsessed Ms
Eastgate and Dr Bailey was one
paronial campaign in an international
war that has raged for 40 years
between Scientologists and some
people they regard as their sworn ene-
mies, psychiatrists.

Now the battlefield is Victoria,
which CCHR claimed this month was
the "deep-sleep capital of Australia".

As the Victorian health commission -
winds up a long Inquiry into deep-sleep
therapy use in this slate - largely
at the instigation of CCHR --
internal Scientology documents raise
questions about the motives behind the
church's push for the probe.

A key Issue is the disturbing indication
in the documents that apart from
CCHR's altruistic interest In the
Victorian inquiry, the Church of
Scientology had a hidden agenda -- and what
could be seen by some as a witch-hunt
aimed at discrediting the doctors and
organisations helpful in outlawing the
church in Victoria more than 25 years
ago.

Those documents target the late
Melbourne psychiatrist and deep-
sleep advocate Dr Alex Sinclair as a
key person behind the suppression of
Sclentology and a "big fish as regards
enemy action against (the church)",
and outline plans to have him made
the subject of official investigations.

Scientology was, for a period,
banned la Victoria after a Board of
Inquiry Into Sclentology, conducted by
The Victorian and New South Wales
inquiries into deep-sleep therapy
may never have occurred had it not
been for the lobbying of the Citizens
Commission on Human Rights.

JACQUI MACDONALD and
JO CHANDLER investigate the
operations and motives of this
group.

Kevin Anderson, QC, which found in
1985 that while some aspects of Scientology
seemed so ludicrous that its
practitioners could be dismissed as
"harmless cranks", to do so would be a
grave mistake.

Mr Anderson reported to Parliament
that the church was evil, and a
serious threat to the community.

Dr Sinclair participated in this Inquiry.

A former Scientologist active In the
church at the time says that the
church continued under the guise of
the Church of New Faith, until amend-
ments under federal legislation in
1973 recognised Sclentology as a reli-
gious denomination. That status,
which remains in place today, effec-
tively neutered the bans of Victoria
and other states.

Perhaps the most stunning aspect of
the reports is that more than 20 years
after the Anderson Inquiry, Melbourne
Scientologlsts were -- at least In 1987
-- still trying to root out the Individ-
uals behind the 1965 probe that so
damaged the young church internationally.

The preoccupation of a church
organisation with investigations, debriefing and sweeping
information gathering-- particularly in regard to
the medical world - may seem baffling without an
understanding of the roots of Sclentology, and the fixation,
of the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard on espionage
as a means of defending his empire against attack.

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Typed in by Lermanet.com Exposing the CON
from an un-ocr'able copy of the Melbourne Age
March 2005